Non's world champ!

2012 Season- Better late than never.

Hi all!


As you might be able to tell, the old social media hasn’t been our strong point to date – but, as we’ve said, all that is about to change – we promise! We said we’d keep you updated on the highs and lows of being an elite athlete, along with coaching stuff too but, partly because we were doing all that stuff, you can see that didn't exactly happen. 

Things will be different now – so keep in touch with what’s going on. 


To kick off with - what’s new since that last post?  I mean that post was in February, so there is a bit to tell! Here goes!

Firstly, all you athletes have been kicking butt! So, in no particular order (as they say!), let’s hear about some of the achievements……




Katie Cooke

-  Irish Middle Distance Champion

-  14th Overall Ironman Austria

Well done, Katie!


Leon Taylor (Olympic Diver and driventotri athlete)

-P.B. of 20 minutes at the London Triathlon

Fantastic effort, Leon – all heading in the right direction – quicker!


Joyce Wolfe

- Irish Ironman record holder.

- Gave birth to a bouncing baby at the end of May. Baby Cara was taken for her first swim two weeks later, both are now back in full training.

Wow! Women! How brilliant, Joyce! Hope you’re getting some sleep too, though!


Hannah Drewett

- Made her senior elite debut at Banyoles World Cup where she made front pack on the bike.

-  Led Olympic domestique, Lucy Hall out the water at Dunkirk French Grand Prix.

That’s so impressive, Hannah! Well done!

Sarah Davis

With the help of her training, lost 1.5st and looked fantastic in her wedding dress. 

Congratulations, Sarah!

Onto the coaches front. What they have been up to? Well ……

Harry just missed out on getting the third place in the Olympic team but, not to be deterred, quickly turned his attention to Ironman racing. Not that he was prepared enough for such a change in distance though, and although he managed to win the Outlaw, I think his run wasn’t what he would consider his best! Some would say not bad in the circumstances though – and a win’s a win! With this success though he thought that the same success might follow at Ironman Wales. Sadly, this wasn't the case and he realized that maybe some more appropriate preparation wouldn't go a miss! He’s on the case!

Non has had a fantastic season since moving to Leeds. A senior World Title in The Mixed Team Championships must be the highlight – racing in difficult weather conditions that saw a few others hitting the deck in places!  This came a day after coming a most credible 6th in the main race! Fantastic achievements! The girl doesn’t like rest though so, currently she is preparing for the World U23 champs in Auckland. Go for it, Non!

That's about it for now - unless you know differently - but we'll let you know what happens 'down under' as soon as we get the details, and anything else we think you'd be interested in hearing.


Wherever you are, whatever your goal – we’ll help and support you! Keep in touch and keep up all the good work!


So - Keep tri-ing! 

Driventotri

Happy Belated New Year...

Happy Belted New Year one and all.

OK so its February 6th. I'll put my hands up and take all the sticks and stones you can throw at me. Actually no, I take that back, sticks and stones may broke my bones...

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, better late than never??!!
OK I guess it should actually be "sorry".

So finally 2012 is upon us and it's been a pretty busy start to the year here at Driven to Tri towers.

Harry has been somewhat errr...busy?! Yes busy. I'll spare you the details. But if you haven't the faintest what I'm chatting about you probably don't frequent 'TriTalk', or whichever gossip forum is cool with the kids these days. I recommend you keep it that way. You know you shouldn't believe everything you read...

Never the less it does mean we haven't had time to update the homepage with exciting events and general happenings for 2012. Again we do apologise.

But, fear not ever faithful driven to tri-ers, please keep your eyes peeled, we're hoping to address this within the next few weeks where we will shower you with glitter and gold...OK not quite but there's definitely something quite exciting in the pipeline. Well we think so anyway...

In general news, we would like to send our congratulations to Gethin, who recently proposed to Jo, who thankfully agreed, and the two are now blissfully engaged. On the same weekend Gethin ran a 1min45 PB over 5miles to clock 33.51. Did I mention 1min45 PB! Amazing what a successful proposal can do for your running. Best start cracking out the rings fellas...

I hope the rest of you are having an equally exciting start to the new year, that your visors are still safely stowed away, and you haven't had a warm gel since September; oh the joys of the off season!

Keep warm friends...the summer is just around the corner...I hope!!

Love and stuff x

PS: if you have a spare 5mins or are bored at work check out coach non's blog at; www.nonstanford.blogspot.com